Replay THIS!
We're just over halfway through this year's NFL regular season and it's certainly been exciting, in many cases because of FUCKED UP calls by the referees. Now I am totally in favor of the replay system, I think it should exist in ALL sports in the same "challenge" sort of manner, but the current NFL rules regarding replay are FUCKING BULLSHIT.
First off, once again, I LIKE the system that's in place in principle, but the ticky-tacky manner the specific rules regarding it are used is bullshit. The rules regarding replay in the NFL are actually contradictory and stupid if you think about it. THIS play is reviewable, but THIS play is not, that's bullshit! By having replay AT ALL, the NFL has CLEARLY admitted that the referees are fallible, that they make mistakes, therefore ANYTHING should be challengable. By having SOME plays that are reviewable and other plays that are not, essentially what they're saying is that the refs NEVER fuck up THESE plays, but they almost ALWAYS fuck up THESE plays. That's bullshit! You should be able to challenge ANY PLAY. You should be able to challenge a PENALTY if you want to. You'd still only get 2 challenges, if THAT'S what you want to use them on, then you should be able to.
And I'm NOT pissed off about this just because I'm a Redskins fan(and only because I grew up here), whatever team you root for, they ALL get fucked on this shit at some point or another. Granted, it seems like that shit ALWAYS goes against my boys, but it goes both ways, and it happens to everyone. Isn't it more important to make THE RIGHT CALL than to maintain the ref's "authority"? Isn't it more important that games be decided by WHAT ACTUALLY OCCURED than by some bullshit call by a ref who was 20 yards away at the time? C'mon!
It's not MY millions of dollars that are on the line every Sunday, the owners should be more pissed off about this shit than anyone, but we never hear a PEEP out of them, do we? You know why? Because they've made their money before the season even starts, from their 100 billion dollar TV contract. Every dollar you spend at the game is GRAVY to them. I don't wanna hear, or will I ever believe that these owners are just scraping by on paper-thin profit margins. You know why I've never been to an NFL game? Because I can't afford $150 to take myself and a friend. And the owners are going to cry "broke"? Bullshit. But that's another post altogether.
You know who else needs replay? Baseball. I know I've talked about this before, but it still pisses me off to NO fucking end. And I HATE it when people say shit to me like "Human error is part of the baseball tradition." BULLSHIT! You know what? FUCK your tradition! If tradition were so important to you, why wouldn't we all be living a fucking log cabin in woods? That's "traditional." If tradition were so important to you, why aren't we all walking around in leg hose and wearing white wigs?
That "tradition" bullshit is just a fucking cop-out. Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that Bud Selig is the "Dubya" of sports. He SCREWS people who want to get into baseball ownership in favor of his old buddies. The whole MLB aristocracy is made up of Bud Selig's cronies. Why? For the same reason Bush does it, to keep HIMSELF in control. And it's not in his interests to bring replay into baseball because THEN he couldn't get the umpires to swing every important game the way of the big-market teams. Why won't he install a salary cap? It's NOT because of the player's union, they can and HAVE been easily appeased countless times in the past, it's because then the fucking Yankees won't be able to get EVERY player in the fucking league just by throwing more money at them than anyone else can. Which is the ONLY reason EVERY big free agent "is looking at New York," because they know that Steinbrenner will give them WHATEVER THEY ASK FOR if he wants them, and that just means more money in Bud Selig's pockets.
Anyway, I didn't mean to go off on a rant about baseball, but this shit really pisses me off. LET'S GET THE GODDAMN CALL RIGHT, and worry about the ref's "authority" later. It's not taking anything away from them anyway, sometimes there are tough calls to make, and they HAVE an outstanding tool to assist them, but they still insist that they can make the right call EVERY time, and that's bullshit. These rules need to be overhauled IMMEDIATELY, or the NFL standings simply cannot be trusted to accurately reflect who ACTUALLY WON OR LOST. Period.
First off, once again, I LIKE the system that's in place in principle, but the ticky-tacky manner the specific rules regarding it are used is bullshit. The rules regarding replay in the NFL are actually contradictory and stupid if you think about it. THIS play is reviewable, but THIS play is not, that's bullshit! By having replay AT ALL, the NFL has CLEARLY admitted that the referees are fallible, that they make mistakes, therefore ANYTHING should be challengable. By having SOME plays that are reviewable and other plays that are not, essentially what they're saying is that the refs NEVER fuck up THESE plays, but they almost ALWAYS fuck up THESE plays. That's bullshit! You should be able to challenge ANY PLAY. You should be able to challenge a PENALTY if you want to. You'd still only get 2 challenges, if THAT'S what you want to use them on, then you should be able to.
And I'm NOT pissed off about this just because I'm a Redskins fan(and only because I grew up here), whatever team you root for, they ALL get fucked on this shit at some point or another. Granted, it seems like that shit ALWAYS goes against my boys, but it goes both ways, and it happens to everyone. Isn't it more important to make THE RIGHT CALL than to maintain the ref's "authority"? Isn't it more important that games be decided by WHAT ACTUALLY OCCURED than by some bullshit call by a ref who was 20 yards away at the time? C'mon!
It's not MY millions of dollars that are on the line every Sunday, the owners should be more pissed off about this shit than anyone, but we never hear a PEEP out of them, do we? You know why? Because they've made their money before the season even starts, from their 100 billion dollar TV contract. Every dollar you spend at the game is GRAVY to them. I don't wanna hear, or will I ever believe that these owners are just scraping by on paper-thin profit margins. You know why I've never been to an NFL game? Because I can't afford $150 to take myself and a friend. And the owners are going to cry "broke"? Bullshit. But that's another post altogether.
You know who else needs replay? Baseball. I know I've talked about this before, but it still pisses me off to NO fucking end. And I HATE it when people say shit to me like "Human error is part of the baseball tradition." BULLSHIT! You know what? FUCK your tradition! If tradition were so important to you, why wouldn't we all be living a fucking log cabin in woods? That's "traditional." If tradition were so important to you, why aren't we all walking around in leg hose and wearing white wigs?
That "tradition" bullshit is just a fucking cop-out. Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that Bud Selig is the "Dubya" of sports. He SCREWS people who want to get into baseball ownership in favor of his old buddies. The whole MLB aristocracy is made up of Bud Selig's cronies. Why? For the same reason Bush does it, to keep HIMSELF in control. And it's not in his interests to bring replay into baseball because THEN he couldn't get the umpires to swing every important game the way of the big-market teams. Why won't he install a salary cap? It's NOT because of the player's union, they can and HAVE been easily appeased countless times in the past, it's because then the fucking Yankees won't be able to get EVERY player in the fucking league just by throwing more money at them than anyone else can. Which is the ONLY reason EVERY big free agent "is looking at New York," because they know that Steinbrenner will give them WHATEVER THEY ASK FOR if he wants them, and that just means more money in Bud Selig's pockets.
Anyway, I didn't mean to go off on a rant about baseball, but this shit really pisses me off. LET'S GET THE GODDAMN CALL RIGHT, and worry about the ref's "authority" later. It's not taking anything away from them anyway, sometimes there are tough calls to make, and they HAVE an outstanding tool to assist them, but they still insist that they can make the right call EVERY time, and that's bullshit. These rules need to be overhauled IMMEDIATELY, or the NFL standings simply cannot be trusted to accurately reflect who ACTUALLY WON OR LOST. Period.
